I Created Scientific Magic

Chapter 649: 542

Chapter 649: 542

At the same moment, Lydia was pulling on the lever, controlling the fighter to climb rapidly upward.

“So fast!” As she saw several bombs racing towards her, a sonic boom cloud, similar to that of the fighter, appeared around her, leaving Harrov somewhat astonished.

Unfortunately, the precision wasn’t great; not a single bomb was aimed directly at her.

Far from dodging, Harrov, who was very interested, moved towards them and constructed a powerful magic shield around himself, intending to test the strength of these attacks.

The speed of both sides had reached an extreme, crossing the distance of one thousand five hundred meters in less than three seconds!

Harrov soon collided with one of the incoming bombs, the explosive shockwave sweeping through the space, tearing the magic shield covering him into shreds, but it was immediately blocked from reaching further by the Legendary Domain.

Is that it… just that?

Harrov was somewhat disappointed—the explosion of that magnitude couldn’t hurt him, much less pose a substantial threat to other Legends.

But Harrov quickly realized something was wrong, as the light from the explosion rushed into his domain at an extremely fast rate, even making him feel an indescribable threat.

“Is this the ‘Undying Flame’?!” Harrov immediately realized, his expression changing abruptly; he hadn’t expected Lynn to use something so dangerous on the fighters.

At the same time Harrov sensed something amiss, down at the training ground, Vittorio was quite proudly introducing to several councilmen the bombs loaded on the fighter, explaining that each of them was fitted with a miniature thruster too.

The flight principle was similar to that of the fighters, and due to their compact size, they could reach speeds exceeding four times the speed of sound!

At the moment of detonation, chlorotrifluoride present inside as compressed gas would react explosively on contact with the combustible material on the outer layer, covering a radius of three hundred meters. With multiple bombs launched together, they could turn a vast area of the sky into a sea of fire, leaving enemies traveling at the speed of sound no time to evade.

The only downside was that they were too complicated to make; each sound-speed bomb was practically a mini-fighter. If the materials and labor were converted into money, they would be worth at least five hundred gold coins each!

In other words, Lydia’s attack had just cost several thousand gold coins!

Vittorio and the others, however, weren’t concerned about the expense. If throwing a few thousand gold coins could threaten a Legend, then it was undoubtedly a very cost-effective deal.

“Harrov was too careless,” Aurora said, shaking her head as she watched Harrov, stubborn as ever, collide directly with the bombs.

Luckily, although the ‘Undying Flame’ was powerful and in certain ways very effective against energy bodies, Harrov was not facing it for the first time. Even though he was caught off guard, looking a bit disheveled, he managed to escape the fate of being consumed by the ‘Undying Flame’.

“Using up all the bombs in one breath is really too wasteful. If the enemy isn’t successfully hit, then the combat effectiveness is going to take a big hit, right?” Lynn said, frowning as he watched the constantly changing situation in the sky.

Dennis was naturally aware of this shortcoming, but it was just too difficult to aim and hit an enemy moving at high speeds!

The only solution was to rely on such wide-area attacks.

“In that case, why not create a kind of bomb that can automatically track the enemy and adjust its trajectory mid-air?” Lynn suggested thoughtfully.

Some spiritual-energy wizards were able to use magic to separate their consciousness and control enormous golems — perhaps this knowledge could be applied to missiles, possibly creating tracking projectiles.

Combining the principles of modern missiles with past experiences, Lynn explained to Dennis how to make bombs launched into the sky automatically home in on detected enemies through infrared sensing and radar tracking.

Although they still hadn’t been able to incorporate computers and chip technology, replacing those with spiritual energy techniques turned out to be even more useful.

Listening to Lynn’s explanation, Dennis’s eyes lit up, and he immediately conceived many new improvement schemes. If it weren’t for the fact that the tests on the new fighter jets were not yet complete, he would have already been eager to start his research.

“Why not just call it a guided missile!” Lynn said with a smile.

Anthony, Aurora, and Vittorio, listening to the two’s discussion, didn’t know whether to feel happy or helpless at the moment. The new fighter jets already posed a significant threat to legends, and once Dennis developed guided missiles, they would surely become even more troublesome.

At that moment in the sky above, the battle was becoming increasingly fierce. After suffering a disadvantage, Harrov had started to take things seriously, instantly covering the whole area with a powerful Thunder Net.

Unfortunately, the fighter jet was flying too fast. After the previous attacks failed, Lydia switched to evasion tactics, maintaining a distance and continuously harassing her opponent with cannon fire from afar.

Even though this posed no actual threat to Harrov, it was as annoying as a persistent fly.

There were two methods to deal with such a high-speed enemy. The first was to use something faster, so that the opponent couldn’t dodge the attack, and the second was to predict their position in advance and use area strikes.

After experimenting once, Harrov quickly found out that the simplest first method was the least useful.

The only things that could make a supersonic fighter jet unable to dodge were thunder and laser techniques.

Unfortunately, both were limited in their effects.

Electromagnetic techniques were blocked by the electromagnetic shield surrounding the fighter jet, and while laser beams were fast enough, they had a limited radius of damage. Even a fifth-level laser beam would lose much of its power after a distance of five hundred meters, not enough to break through the fuselage coated with a high-strength graphene layer.

To talk about weak points, they were not nonexistent. It just so happened that the new fighter jets lacked any protection against gravity manipulation magic, which was exactly what Harrov excelled at.

After using gravity manipulation to disrupt Lydia’s sense of direction and combining it with wide-range magic attacks, victory was decided after about twenty minutes of combat.

If Harrov had not held back in time, the fighter jet would have been shot down.

Having narrowly escaped death, Lydia obediently returned to base to conclude the flight training. Despite the ‘defeat,’ she could not hide her excitement at having competed with a Legendary Councilman for a while—it was a glorious loss!

Had she chosen to engage or even flee from the start, her opponent might not have been able to catch up with her.

Lynn and the others were extremely satisfied. An alchemically-created object capable of mass production that could hold a legend at bay was already astonishing.

Moreover, the fighter jet could still be improved, and Lydia’s piloting skills were also lacking, indicating there was a significant room for enhancement.

“Now there’s only two weeks left until the three-and-a-half-month deadline. You need to work harder, Lydia. In foreign lands, the enemies will not show mercy like Councilman Harrov did,” Lynn said, patting Lydia’s shoulder.

Dennis quickly summoned the Alchemists to inspect the experimental jet and haul it back. He had many new ideas, perhaps enough to perform a new modification on the device, and he was very enthusiastic, asking Lynn to join in as well.

“Maybe not this time. I don’t have time to spare lately,” Lynn shook his head, turning down Dennis’s invitation.

Although he had finished writing his theory of relativity, according to Ailoke’s report, the construction of magic power stations was completed, and the high-speed particle collider he had ordered was almost ready.

The significance of the deification ceremony and antimatter was obviously greater. They were directly linked to whether they could defeat the Lord of the Undead or not.